We Did It!!!!

We all managed to survive the weekend without a single meltdown....from any of us. Jason was asked to be part of the selection team for the National Beach Team. What this means is he was one of 4 people deciding who gets funding from Volleyball Canada. Volleyball Canada put our family up at the Holiday Inn Yorkdale for the weekend. Jason was gone for most of the weekend but the kids and I stayed very busy.

On Friday night we headed down to the pool and to play a little tennis.




Also on Friday night, our friend Moira came to the hotel for a visit. We ordered room service and hung out together while Jason was at his first meeting. Moira spoils Riley and Simon and always comes with gifts. Thank you very much for the sweaters, hat and mitts. You will see from the photos that they loved them and asked to wear it everyday.

Saturday, the kids and I dropped Jason off at Beach Blast for 8:00a.m. then we headed back to Barrie to go to Riley and Simon's friend Owen's 4th Birthday Party. It was a great party filled with lots of fun and games...of course I left my camera at the hotel. Thank you for including us in your special day Owen.
After the party we drove back down to Toronto and meet Jason at the Rain Forest Cafe for an early dinner. Simon LOVES it there and has been asking to go for a while. I am not sure why we waste our money ordering him any food because he never touches it. He is way to busy watching the action and doing his gorilla impressions.

Here's the gorilla.


After dinner we headed back to the hotel for another swim before Jason had to head out for the evening. Simon decided that he didn't need any help swimming and off he went. It was unbelievable to watch him swimming with his life jacket on...no help needed. Those little arms and legs move a million miles an hour.



Sunday morning brought on exhaustion for the three of us so we decided to lounge around the hotel room and to go swimming while Jason was gone. Riley was not going to be out done by her little brother in the swimming department so off she went.


Simon was off and swimming by himself and pretending to be a sloth.



We had a late check out arranged so the kids spent some time playing leapfrog down the hallway.


After checking out at 2:00 and dropping Jason off for his last session the kids and I ventured out to a place called Balls of Fun....I know not the best name. I had seen it advertised in a couple of parent magazines over the years and have wanted to go. We had about 5 hours to kill so off we went. The kids had a great time playing with all of the balls and going down the bumpy slide.




By 5:30 we were all done. Simon has only napped in the van for the past 3 days and still continued on his 5:00a.m. wake up.

We headed back to Beach Blast and played in the sand until Jason was done at 7:00. It was a great weekend, we are all exhausted. Tomorrow will be a quiet day at home, unpacking, doing laundry and napping before our last swimming lesson for this session.